Marten Cumberland

Marten Cumberland (* 1892 in London , † 1972 ) was a British journalist and writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Cumberland joined the Royal Navy and went to sea for over six years. During the First World War he acted as a naval radio operator . After the war he quit his military service and worked as a journalist for various newspapers and radio stations.

Cumberland lived in Paris for many years and settled in Ireland shortly before his death in 1972 .

In addition to his own name, Cumberland also used the pseudonym Kevin O'Hara . He worked several times as an editor and his literary oeuvre consisted mostly (over 60 volumes) of detective novels . As a protagonist, he invented “Commissaire Saturnin Sax”, which contemporary literary criticism has often compared to Georges Simenon's “ Commissioner Maigret ”. In addition, he published some dramas and radio plays , but with which he could hardly achieve success.

Works (selection)

under the name Marten Cumberland

• Nightmare. Detective novel ("Policeman's nightmare"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• The bank on rue de la Coférence. Detective novel ("Not expected to live"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• Discretion a matter of honor. Detective novel ("A lovely corpse"). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• Invitation to a vacation trip. Detective novel ("Far better dead!"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• The frightened women. Detective novel ("The frightened brides"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• The woman with the monocle. Detective novel ("Etched in violence"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• The mysterious studio. Detective novel ("The charge is murder"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• Honorable citizen. Detective novel ("Murmurs in the Rue Morgue"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• Honeymoon trip to Paris. Detective novel ("Confetti can be red"). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• Ransom for Ginette. Detective novel ("Fade out the stars"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• Beads of the Manette Sugru. Detective novel ("Hate will find a way"). Goldmann, Munich 1958.
• The «Red Elephant». Detective novel ("Out of this world"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.
• Check and mate. Detective novel ("One foot in the grave"). Goldmann, Munich 1957.
• Steps in the dark. Detective novel ("Steps in the dark"). Goldmann, Munich 1956.
• You are fired. Detective novel ("Booked for death"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• A star goes down. Detective novel ("On the danger list"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• Theater ticket for Béatrice. Detective novel ("Lying at death's door"). Goldmann, Munich 1961.

under the name Kevin O'Hara

• Chico cleans up. A chico board thriller (“Keep your fingers crossed”). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• Blackmailers at work. A Chico board thriller ("Danger - Women at work!"). Goldmann, Munich 1963.
• A woman with money. A Chico board thriller (“Don't neglect the body”). Goldmann, Leipzig 1965.
• Dangerous windows. A Chico board thriller ("Exit and curtain"). Goldmann, Munich 1957.
• A gentleman with gray temples. A Chico board thriller (“Don't tell the police”). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
• The mysterious fan. A chico board thriller (“And here is the noose”). Goldmann, Munich 1967.
• Manette unpacks. A Chico board thriller ("Women like to know"). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• My wife has disappeared. A Chico board thriller ("Well, I'll be hanged"). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• The rose-colored glasses. A Chico board thriller (“The pace that kills”). Goldmann, Munich 1956.
• The actress. A chico board thriller ("It leaves them cold"). Goldmann, Munich 1956.
• You knew too much. A Chico board thriller (“The customer's always wrong”). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• The dancer. A Chico board thriller ("Sing, Clubman, sing!"). Goldmann, Munich 1957.
• A woman 's weapon ("It's your funeral"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• If something should happen. A Chico board thriller (“If anything should happen”). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
• Between two opponents. A Chico board thriller (“Always tell the sleuth”). Goldmann, Munich 1958.

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 127.
• Otto Penzler: Detectionary. A biographical dictionary of leading characters in detective and mystery fiction . Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY 1977, ISBN 0-87951-041-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marten Cumberland in the catalog of the German National Library